Browse by Subject "music"

One often interprets one’s selfhood in a Cartesian way. That is, the everyday self is a clearly demarcated individual that is separate from others and from the world around it (including, to a large extent, its own body). ...

This dissertation critically examines reggaetón music as it is discursively constructed through mainstream media and Internet debates about the genre (e.g., online music forums, social networking profile pages) during and ...

Many music signals can largely be considered an additive combination of
multiple sources, such as musical instruments or voice. If the musical sources
are pitched instruments, the spectra they produce are predominantly ...

Hip Hop and rap have an influence on people's use of slang in their daily conversations. In order to find evidence that supported my theory I conducted a survey, looked at Facebook statuses, and read about what published ...

I love music and the way that people can relate to it and its message. Music has a way of bringing out things in people that other people or things can not. The reason why I chose to conduct a research paper that focused ...

This paper seeks to explore how and via what tools music students are identifying, locating, and accessing music materials – specifically scores and recordings – for use in their music studies. It also aims to examine ...

What is the interaction that exists between jazz and hip-hop music created by African American Muslims, and those influenced by the tenets of Islam? The aim of this study is to explore and come to a better understanding ...

YouTube’s accessibility, ease of use, and depth of content are strong lures for music students. But do music teaching faculty and librarians encourage this and do they use it in their own research, teaching, and work? This ...

For my research project I looked at Marshall Street Records, a student-run, University-owned record label. I looked at what MSR meant to the students who worked at the label, if they felt like the experience was meaningful ...

This dissertation examines the history of musical subcultures in Moscow from 1977 to 2008. It argues that subcultures were not forces for revolutionary change, or natural loci of opposition to the state. Only during the ...

“Music and Entertainment in Post-Soviet Kazakhstani Holidays: Ideology and Legacy”
My dissertation examines the interplay between ideology and entertainment as reflected in the holiday cycle of post-Soviet Kazakhstan. ...

The Internet has changed how scholars perform their research. With more and more content available online that is fully searchable (often even for free), it is not surprising that students and others may turn there first ...

One of the basic tenants of “new musicology” is that music forms within the context of its composer’s and performer’s surroundings. This is true for more pragmatic works because their function shapes their form. For ...

At the dawn of the twentieth century, Imperial Russia was in the throes of immense social, political and cultural upheaval. The effects of rapid industrialization, rising capitalism and urbanization, as well as the trauma ...

Music and language are two interconnected acoustic and cognitive phenomena shared by human beings. Among their similarities are their variety of intonations and inflections resulting in melody and prosody, respectively. ...

Rripaŋu Yidaki is a grassroots tourism business, dedicated to the craft and study of the didjeridu, initiated, owned, and maintained by one Aboriginal family in the far north of Australia. Because of their work as Aboriginal ...

LGB teens’ feelings, desires, and physical attractions run contrary to the heteronormative standards of American society. As such, LGB youth often experience feelings of sadness and dejection that can lead to depression ...

The practice of distributed, networked music performance, involving video and audio representations, is rapidly growing and presenting new possibilities and opportunities for aesthetic expression. This thesis ex- amines ...

Donald Francis Tovey’s writings on music continue to have a strong influence on scholarship seventy years after his death. In several of his essays, he mentions “normality” and “freedom” as meaningful aesthetic principles, ...